And continuing onward:

...

    <Unnnh... What just hit me?>

A mirror. Apparently your reflection really was that horrible.

    <Cavernous compartment. Magical barriers are in place around
the facility.>

    <I've narrowed down the energy pattern that disabled->

    <-multiple crystalline objects imbedded in ocular vitreous
humor.>

Hmm, her eyes?

    "No!" Catseye shouted back. He lightly touched his badly
burned face. "She hurt ME the most! _I_ should be the one to
deliver the finishing blow!"

Which will never come at this rate.

    "No!" JareJare snapped. "She is a great danger to us all! With
her powers, she killed Sailor Saturn, defeated every Senshi in the
solar system, dashed Earth's interstellar fleet into pieces, and,
and, and... A whole bunch of other stuff, okay?! We have to use all
our powers NOW to destroy her before she can hurt anyone else!"

Sound strategy, but I think it's a little late for that.

    A massive surge rocked the entire collective mind.

    <@#$%@#^#^#^^@$#@$!! THEY'RE USING A PSYCHIC PROBE!>

Hmm. Wonder why she regards this as being so bad.

    Catseye's scream split the air and he jerked his head backward.
Covering his eyes, a trail of blood going down his hands, he pulled
his face out of the mirror and tried to back off.

Hmm. I think the damage has already been done.

    "Whew," Catseye breathed a sigh of relief. "That really hurt. I
was afraid that she'd have killed me or something like that. I'm sure
glad I was wearing my energy-resistant underwear!"

Heh

    YOU BOUGHT IT AT MERVYN'S, DIDN'T YOU?

Cool. Wondered when he'd pop up.

    Jares turned her head toward the gypsy-Senshi. "But why? It's-"

    "She's LYING!!!"

Wonder how she can tell

    <Hoooooooooo-kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. So there ARE human beings
that can defeat a second-level Super-Senshi.>

Yep, and you just met one.

    <What'm I? BRAINDEAD?! We can't! There's no escape route!>

    <Besides, where's the fun in a fight unless it's a challenge?>

Oh, I have plenty of fun winning onesided battles. ^_^

    Young Queen Neherenia looked at her two followers, her face
a mask of disdain. "You are all too careless! I told you to destroy
her right away!"

Now she's smart. If she was smarter, she'd be repremanding her employees
after she vaped Terra.

    <Do you realize what I look like in this outfit?>

    <A strawberry and vanilla ice cream cone with a cherry on
top?>

Heh. Cute

    <Knight in Shining Armor, quit going all lovey-dovey on your
wife and get down here NOW!>

    <Nah, you're doing fine. We're happy where we are.>

Hehehehe. Very nice. I do miss SSK now, though.

    <Listening in on the conversation... It's about us.>

    "But," JareJare began, looking at her queen, "if she's truly
so evil, then why would Queen Serenity adopt her as her daughter?"

Stupidity.

    The seated young woman slapped her hand against the aim

arm

    Neherenia relaxed slightly. "Good. In answer to your question,
the White Moon Queen is obviously unaware of this being's true
nature, else

or else (would sound better to me)

    "Do you really want to rule solar system?" Jares ventured to
ask. "Aren't we more into this to get rid of the evil and _save_ the
solar system, Queen Neherenia-sama?"

    "That does sound like a better reason," Akis added. Her
expression was very serious, and for once she did not seem to be in
the mood for any laughter.

I'll make it three then. Sounds good to me as well.

    "Oh," replied the still semi-coherent Sailor Jares, ignoring
the fact that the edges of her outfit were still slowly burning from
her experience with Terra. "Dat makes sense." She looked down and
stuck out her lower lip, pouting.

Hmm. Terra really sucked a lot of her intelliegnce out of her, eh?

    <Maybe she likes garish wall ornaments?>

    <Could be...>

    <Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sensors indicate that Neherenia is
charging up an attack.>

Ah, that explains the pause

Yes, basically a long battle sequence, but occasionally, it is necessary,
especially with a fanfic with this sort of title. ^_-

It works well enough though. I like it as is.

Now to see to the next part.

D.B. Sommer






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